Dark Wings

Ippei Yamada

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Dark Wings
Video ID number
V00151
Recording date
March 1998

Overview

This work was choreographed for ballet dancers of the Taras Shevchenko National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Ukraine by butoh dancer Yamada Ippei (aka Bishop Yamada) while he spent some months in living in Kyiv. An encounter with butoh by ballet dancers. It featured appearances by Anna Kouschneryova, national star of Ukraine at the time, and in August that same year, it was remade under the name 'The Door of Night for Odette' and performed at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre with most of the same cast.

Details

Title
Dark Wings
Performance creator(s)
Hoppo Butoh-ha
Direction/Choreography
Directed and Choreographed by: Ippei Yamada
Venue
National Opera of Ukraine
Performance date(s)
27 March 1998 ‐ 28 March 1998
Performer(s) and staff
Performers: Ippei Yamada, Anna Kouschneryova, Ksenia Ivanenko, Ludmila Vasilieva, Olga Ustimenko, Yulia Vasko, Alexandr Shapoval, Alexandr Kamensky
Costume Designer: Maria Leviticus
Sound Designer: Taizo Tsuruoka
Lighting Designer: Toshio Mizohata
Stage Designer: Ippei Yamada
Stage Manager: Anna Potapova
Genre
Butoh

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